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Poor Al Gore. What cause will he have to resort to for publicity and limelight if hanging chads and global warming are no longer in vogue?

I have always had a niggling doubt in the back of my mind about the veracity of global warming. How could the tiny machinations of man impact the massiveness of our planet in such a dramatic way in so short a time? I wrote a little about my thoughts on the whole issue back when I reviewed Michael Crichton’s thriller, State of Fear. (You can read an ABC News article on it here.) By the way, the title is an apropos description of what the global warming crowd would like to create.

Now it seems that another leading scientific think tank is taking the offense by opening up dialogue in its journal Physics & Society. The American Physical Society had initially been sucked into supporting the politically-charged agenda of global warming but now is backing away from it, it seems.

One of the early contributions to the journal is Victor Monckton, the science advisor to Margaret Thatcher’s administration in Britain. He says:

“I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC’s [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central ‘climate sensitivity’ question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method.” (italics mine)

According to Monckton, there is substantial support for his results, “in the peer-reviewed literature, most articles on climate sensitivity conclude, as I have done, that climate sensitivity must be harmlessly low.”

Monckton… says natural variability is the cause of most of the Earth’s recent warming. “In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years … Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth.”

This news does not bode well for liberal political activists which have tried to made global warming an issue in this election season. If the legs are knocked out from under global warming like those of traditional evolution, what will they have to stand on any longer? I guess their opinions need to evolve to become truly scientific rather than emotional interpretations of what they would like to be fact.

Is it the wrath of God?

Francis Schaeffer in Death in the City had a different interpretation in 1968 of why bad things might be happening environmentally – from tsunamis to tornadoes to floods to hurricanes to earthquakes. He suggested that the insurance companies might be more correct than we allow. Call them “acts of God,” he would say:

“Not all that occurs in space-time history is explainable on the basis of natural causes and effect, for example, economic, military, and psychological forces.”

He goes on to point to Romans 1.18-19 where the apostle Paul writes:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. (ESV)

Schaeffer prophetically declares,

“There is only one perspective we can have of the post-Christian world of our generation: an understanding that our culture and our country is under the wrath of God. Our country is under the wrath of God. Northern European culture is under the wrath of God.”

Whew. Wrath of God is not politically-correct or inspiring stuff. But it may give us insight as to why some of the things are happening that others interpreted global warming as being responsible for. Destruction, disaster and devastation. Are they being poured out from heaven as from a bowl on cultures that have turned their back on the living God after having affirmed Him as their foundation?

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very interesting blog jeffrey! i think we, even Christians, underestimate God and his passion for the people on this earth. it’s amazing to think that He allows all that goes on and never responds, that He’s waiting til the very end. i don’t believe that. there are so many atrocities all over this world, that are happening to believers, and to innocent people. how can we think He’s just sitting there watching? i could go on more but i won’t 🙂

Hmm… it’s always amazing to me how scientists can prove one thing to be true, while other scientists are proving something else to be true. I, personally, think it’s a little irresponsible for anyone in this day and age to think that they have no impact on our climate, our environment, our planet, and yes, global warming. I don’t think it’s coincidental that as cars have become more popular and bigger,constantly excreting higher amounts of CO2, the earth began to warm. Natural global warming DOES exist.. the Earth’s climate changes constantly with or without our impact. The fact remains that… Read more »

@Mandy: I wouldn’t want to disagree in an absolute fashion with you about your comments, but when you said, “scientists can prove one thing to be true, while other scientists are proving something else to be true,” it sums up the predicament. Another fact: global warming has been so highly politicized that average people are completely unaware of the true “facts” about it. Many leading scientists say that you can’t compare a 100 year period of global temperature and say it’s a trend one way or the other. It’s an entire planet, for pete’s sake. It’s comparable to taking your… Read more »

When I have five years to look at your links I will. lol 😉 I totally agree that you can’t take a relatively short period, like 100yrs, and use it as a real measure of the Earth’s warming or cooling trends. Things that are not disputed though would be examples of glaciers melting. Polar bears are drowning b/c they cannot reach another ice patch once they begin swimming. When has that ever happened before? I think that we’ll have times of warmer temps and times of colder temps as a natural occurence and to be a total “global warming wacko”… Read more »

Aww Jeff, you mean all those icemakers, air conditioners, fans, and freezers I’ve been hoarding are no longer applicable?

I have not read that book but if the title is true to the work I can imagine the possibilities.

It’s funny how differently skewed opinions can be, even in the scientific world. It’s also funny to me how people can take things and run very far with it. One extreme to the other. I wonder how much money Al Gore has made off of his agenda?

@Michael: If you want to know the Gore-y details, it’s stunning to discover that he charges $100,00 to speak at a university! Imagine, public ed funds going for that. All in the name of spreading a dubious political agenda. He was also roundly cricitized in the UK last year after making almost $5000 per minute in a speech pushing the green agenda. Unfortunately, I was disappointed to find out that Gore is a board member at Apple, as well as continuing to line his pockets. Check out this disturbing article where it says: In addition to the steady flow of… Read more »

[…] I wrote a while back about the possibility of global warming not being the sole result of man’s influence. Rather, I noted, it may be linked uncomfortably to God’s judgement and wrath on a people that have turned from Him. […]

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